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VN COLLATION #12 This is the second installment in the two-part Interim Collation that I have put together from material found by searching the archives of various newsgroups. You too can search on your favorite subject by using a program called DejaNews which you will find at:
http://www.dejanews.com/ The electrical charge for Nabokov is weak on the non-literary newsgroups that represent the majority of the material in today's collation. I duly report the incidence of his name as a matter of science but refuse to promise any art. I sometimes wonder if I am confusing the "what" with "so what" still, risking censure, I'll let the decision be yours. A Nabokov quotation is used to fill out a series of quotations concerning the joys and dangers of rock climbing. "That mist is a mountain and that mountain must be conquered." Regarding the "restless leg syndrome", a doctor on the sci.med.pharmacy newsgroup wonders if anyone can provide information on this subject.
"Ah yes, restless legs. I've had it for years unfortunately. Most GPs etc are actually quite familiar with the term, although I've rarely heard lay people bandy it about. But it's a common condition;Nabokov had it,for example." The writer goes on to suggest various cures for insomnia (is restless legs really the term for it?) which he had found effective. Perhaps not surprisingly, Nabokov's name is often associated with discussions about music from opera to rock and roll. From rec. music. opera a commonplace for Nabokovians is considered one of the: "Great moments in opera trivia: among those who made their debuts with Pavarotti was Dmitri Nabokov, son of Vladimir."Also from rec. music.opera, commentary on the Danish Opera entitled 'Latter I moerket' ('Laughter in the Dark'), one writer says of it: "With 'Latter I moerket' we have something as infrequent as a credible and fascinating contemporary opera."Discussing a Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto, a writer wonders; "Am I weeping at the beauty of the sound , the shockingly manipulative sentimentality, or Nabokov's wistfulness for his homeland that he mentions in Speak Memory." A song has been sent to rec.music. songwriters for comment: Some of your language falls outside the colloquial mainstream rendering your tone distant and academic.The author of "Desert Varnish" replies that he knew it was "esoteric" but that:
One of my favorite authors is Nabokov ... not an easy read but worth the trouble. It's easy to be "difficult," but hard to be "worth the trouble."Cinematic discussions revolve mostly around "Lolita" although an exhaustive list of books that should be made into movies recommends everything by Nabokov but especially Speak Memory and Bend Sinister. A review of Kubrick's "...great (but disturbing) adaptation of Nabokov's great (but disturbing ) book " ...Lolita compares the movie to another more recent film with a similar theme. Under the heading 'PEDERASTS ON PARADE or Is That A Mighty Morphin Power Ranger In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Glad To See Me,' the reviewer states: Vladimir Nabokov introduced the world to a new term for an age-old phenomenon in his superlaltive novel, Lolita... What Besson (director of "The Professional ") has essentially done ... is remade LOLITA (the movie) without getting the essential fact that despite her precociousness, Lolita is a child who is set adrift when her mother dies and she's left with only Humbert to take care of her.In the incestuous twining of art and life, the star of The Professional 12-year old (now 14 year old) Natalie Portman - is " now rumoured to be the front-runner for the title role in Adrian Lyne's remake of the Nabokov classic."**See D. Barton Johnson's July 17 posting to NABOKV-L. A different actress has been given this role. Apparently (and I have not run into it personally), the Internet is a culture in which pedophiles thrive. In a very long and well considered rebuttal to the position "why should we not be allowed to have sex with children, provided that they consent? " a woman concludes,
"having power over someone is morally incompatible with having a sexual relationship with that person. Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita gives a good illustration of this." And finally cut and pasted en toto from: newsgroups: bit.listserv.literary our existence questioned and an important list of web sites: I am looking for any and all information on Vladmir Nabokov on the Internet. There used to be a listserv concerning Nabokov but it doesn't appear to exist any more. Does anyone else have any more information?
KREMATORIUM: YOU KILL 'EM - WE GRILL 'EM... -L. TOLSTOJ EMail: EChernoz@phoenix.kent.edu LSCIC999@zeus.kent.edu chern@sch57.mcn.msk.su RUSSIAN LITERATURE IS MNOGO BETTER THAN SEX... -V. NABOKOVJpgs of Nabokov at: "http://www-scf.usc.edu/~krischel/.jpg" http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/nabokov.jpg
Documents in Lolita case: I could not get the first address to work so the JPEG at Princeton will have the honor of being the first picture of Nabokov (that I have found) to appear on the web. The other addresses are of little interest to the Nabokov scholar except to the student of Nabokov and cyberculture. They are nevertheless fun to look at.
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